Body of Nature's gallery

I think I could fall madly in bed with you. ~Author Unknown

"Is not this the true romantic feeling-not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? Thomas Wolfe (1968)

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. -Lord (George Gordon) Byron, from "Childe Harold'…

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. -W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, in Cakes and Ale, ch. 11 (1930)

"Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes and is drawn to the face of God." -Margaret Brownley, Grieving God's Way

so kissable...

in better times... Hurricane Ike has just pounded this beautiful island

in better days... with Tardis in the background

looking for the best conch fritters...in the world

Michelle, from the shower...

visiting our hot tub

prelude to a...

beachcombing with a beer...

from the air...

Strongylocentrotus purpuratus ; (Echinodermata) Juveniles are somewhat greenish; domed above flattened below. Area around anus with many scale-like plates (seen here)

Meoma ventricosa: (Echinodermata) Found in south Florida; Bahamas; West Indies in sand and grass beds around reefs

The sexy and sensuous Sheryl Crow...